Book Notices

Classic Joyce is the title given to the Proceedings of the 16th International James Joyce Symposium held at Université Roma Tre (University of Rome III), 14-20 June 1998. The 430-page volume edited by Franca Ruggieri, and scheduled to appear in December 1999, treats the impact of Italian life and culture on Joyce as well as giving wider disciplinary coverage of the state of Joycean scholarship in the land of classics and elsewhere. Plenary speakers included Piero Boitani, Hugh Kenner, Declan Kiberd, Agostino Lombardo and Fritz Senn while Luciano Berio supplied "A Tribute to Joyce". Joyce's notion of classicism and his approach to the classical world were at the heart of a roster of topics that included "Classic Joyce: Homer to Dante", "Giacomo Joyce", "Loci Memoriae", the publisher is Bulzoni Editore, Via dei Liburni 14, 00185 Roma (Italy), tel. 39 06 4455207; fax 39 06 4450355, e-mail: bulzoni@airweb.it, with a website at http//www.airweb.it/bulzoni. Back-issues of Joyce Studies in Italy are available from the same publisher. [ Return to top ]

The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland has just come forth with its conference proceedings for 1998 under the title Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: Regional Identity, edited by Leon Litvack & Glenn Hooper. Litvack (QUB) is writing on the Cork and Dublin Exhibitions while A. Jamie Saris (NUI/Maynooth) covers the Dublin exhibition in detail and Elizabeth Tilley (NUI/Galway) charts culture in the Dublin University Magazine. Eva Maria Stöter (NUI/Maynooth) considers Germany as a mirror for Irish regional/national politics. Under the rubric "Peripheries", Jacqueline Belanger (Kent U.) takes on Lawless’s Grania considered as an exponent of ‘the desire of the West’. Patrick Maume (QUB) renders an account of Shan Bullock and John Haughton Steele’s portraits of the 19thc. Clergyman. Brian Caraher (QUB) writes on Edgeworth, Wilde and Joyce’s readings of Irish regionalism through ‘the cracked lookingglass’ [a topic whose hour has indeed come - Ed.]. Frances Botkin (Illinois U.) follows with Edgeworth’s and Wordsworth’s ‘plain unvarnished tales’ while Richard McMahon (NUI/Galway) examines the regional administration of a central legal policy. Sectioned under "Nations", Seán Ryder (NUI/Galway) deals with the politics of landscape and region in 19thc. poetry, while Kevin Whelan (Notre Dame U.) tackles ‘Writing Ireland: Reading England’ and Michael McAteer (QUB) assays Standish James O’Grady’s enactment of paternalism and nationality in Tory Democracy. Glenn Hooper (Aberdeen U.) employs semiotic means in search of Ireland after the Union at the round-up. [Eat your art out, H. V. Morton -Ed.] This is a not-to-be-missed series and the current offering seems no exception. The publisher is Four Courts Press, with dedicated webpage at http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/socs/fcp-offer.htm offering a reduction of £15 (33%) on this volume. [19th century studies, 19th century prices - Ed.]. [ Return to top ]

ABC-CLIO is canvassing interest in an Encyclopedia of Colonialism (3 vols., 1,200pp.) with a view to publication in 2001. The Encycylopaedia promises to be a comprehensive reference-work covering the subject since 1400 including material on every significant anti-colonial movement [how can they tell? - Ed.] The publishers and editor are currently looking from expressions of interest from possible contributors for over 80 major and some 500 others currently on the headword list. All bright and breezy. The publisher adds, 'We are particularly interested in identifying contributors who would be able to undertake delivery of completed entries within relatively short deadlines necessary to met the projected publication schedule.' From this sentence the whole saga of modern reference works can be inferred. Notwithstanding our jealous comments, those interested should contact Professor Page, Gen. Ed., at <colonial@etsu.edu> or Encyclopedia of Colonialism, Dept. of History, East Tennessee State University, P.O. Box 70672, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA.